The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-18 00:00:00

THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY, (From the limes Correspondent) RICHMOND, June 7. Once more have the shouts of the combatants and the roar of their numerous artillery been heard in the streets of Richmond, and by the calm and im perturbable President of the Confederacy himself. Gnce more have the hills and valleys in front of the Southern capital been stained with blood and ploughed by cannon balls, and the night air made hideous by the wail of the wounded and the groans of the dying. For one month the armies of the North and the South have been wrestling for the mastery —been grappling each other in a death struggle. Daring that brief period torrents of blood have been spilt, and thousands of hearts have ceased to beat for ever. And yet the Federal army, not.. withstanding it has been handled so roughly, has marched with such rapidity, has made such nume rous and desperate assaults, and has lost so heavily, is believed to be not one whit nearer to the goal of its ambiticn than it was when it crossed the Rapidan. Tens it is not so far from the Confedes rate capital if you measure the distanee by miles or leagues ; but if you measure it by the obstacles in the way—the steady lines and glittering bayonets of Lee's dauntless veterans—the Federal corn• mender would seem to be as far back from the Sc.' complishment of the object of his campaign as when e stood upon the red hill s of Cul p e ppe r . Looking back over the period which has elapsed since Grant put his large and well.appointed army in motion, we are able to ap preciate the merits of a campaign which seems destin ed to endin disaster. The state ments of Northern newspapers, the admission of officers who have been taken prisoners, and the ap parent confidence of Grant himself, leave no doubt that he fully expected when he crossed the Rapidan and turned Lee's right flank that the latter would retire upon Richmond, and that there would be a race between them as to which should reach there first. If such were his expectations he was con vinced of his error at the Wilderness and Spotsyl. vania Court House, where he found that the Con federates had not retreated upon the Capital, and that he with his far outnumbering army was not equal to the task of driving them out of his way. The only alternative left him, therefore, was either to abandon the undertaking or to imitate the crab, end advance sideways. He adopted the latter plan, and it must be confessed he has prosecuted it with energy and success, since he has at the same time both covered Washington and threatened Richmond. In this way he has avoided the necessity of leaving a considerable force in his rear to protect his capital as M'Clellan did when he placed M'Dowell at Fre dericksburg. in 1862 with a column of 40,000 men. It had been wiser, however, if he had declined battle at Spotsylvania and the Wilderness, since he lost more men at those places than INl`thwell did at Fredericksburg. Indeed if he had detached the same force to ccver the capital that M'Clellan did, and had moved with the main body of his army around to West Point by water, he might possibly have formed a junction subsequently with the de tached column—at all events he might have saved the many thousand men who now sleep beneath the soil of Virginia and crowd the fetid hospitals of the North. It is only his advance that can be characterised ss having been prosecuted with vigour and success. Tao plan of campaign itself is faulty and unwise tothe last degree as the result has shown, Whatever his advisers may urge in extenuation, the fact will remain that he might have reached his present position without a battle or the loss of a men. Oa the Ist instant General Lee, suspecting Grant would attempt to repeat what is known among the Confederates as his " crab movement," began to manoeuvre for position. Kershaw's and Hoke's divisions of Anderson's Corps (the latter tempora rily attached to the corps) were sent to the right to the old battle-fields of Gaines Hill and Cold Har bour, with orders to occupy the eminences in that quarter. They attacked the enemy in the front, and drove them to their intrenehments. Breckin ridge and Mahone of Hill's Corps were equally successful in gaining certain advantageoua positions. In the afternoon the enemy attacked lietb, and were repulsed by Cooke's and Kirkland's brigades, also of Hill's Corps. in the meantime a Terme of r %La liVititcilu .mo VI IF I.C. tall's station on the York River Railway, on the Confederate right. It has sines been ascertained that this fcrce constituted a part of Butler's army, the greater part of which has already joined Grant. On the morning of the 2d it was discovered that Grant had edged away to the right, as Lee had suspected he would do. He had not gone far, however, for Lee hugged his lines too closely for him to move except under cover of darkness. The Confederates were put in motion on a parallel line, while Early, commanding Ewell's corps (Ewell being sick) swung round late in the afternoon and took the enemy in flank, drove him from two lines of intrenchmcnts, took 700 prisoners, and inflicted a heavy loss in killed and wounded, his own loss being trifling. Gordon, who has been made a major• general for his gallantry at the Wilderness and Spotsyivania, was conspicuous for good behaviour on this occasion. Night put a stop to the conflict. Meanwhile Breckenridge, supported by Willcox, proceeded under orders to attack the enemy on Turkey Hill on the extreme right, and drove him from it after a sharp contest, thus securing a strong and important position which the Federals had al• ready occupied. This hill commands the approaches from the north and east to the military bridges which M'Clellan threw over the Chickahominy. It was evident that Grant was aiming for ;these bridges; consequently Gm. Lee continued to move his army to the right on the evening of the 2d, until he had thrown it right across Grant's path, where the latter eupposed he had comparatively a small force. Great must have been Grant's surprise therefore, at half-past 4 o'clock on the morning of the 3d, when he moved against the Confederates, to find them in greater force where he expected to find them weakest, and standing firmly up to their work behind some rude breastworks which they had thrown up the preceding night. His assault ex tended along the entire line, except on the extreme right, and was everywhere repulsed with heavy less. It was not repeated on the left until near the close of the battle, when it was again repulsed. The chief attack was made upon Kershaw's, Field's, and Hoke's divisions of Anderson's corps in the centre, and upon Breckenridge's and Mahone's divisions of Hill's corps next on their right, the heaviest and most determined assaults being directed against K ers haw and Hoke and the left of Breckenridge. In En o) , respects the battle was a repetition of that of the 12th of May at Spot a yl van i e C our t * house. liet i Ee he kept up a threatening attitude along the whole line, Grant massed a very heavy force and hurled it a gain and again with t remendous violence against a s ingle point. For a fe w m i nutes he broke over the breastworks at a salient on Breck inridge's left, and captured three gnus—but, in less time than it takes me to narrate the circumstances, General Finnegan rushed into the breach with hi s Floridians, and swept the enemy out, retook the guns which they had just finished loading, and turned them upon their flying columns. Saven dif ferent assaults were made against Kershaw's front, each one of which, as were all those made against Field, Hoke, and Breckinridge, was repulsed with a slaughter that has no parallel in the war except at Spotsylvania. It is true that each succeeding assault was feebler than the one that preceded it ; but the Federals came near enough each time for the Confederate marksmen to cut there down in wide blue swathes stretching far across th e fi e ld. The slaughter was sufficient , one would think, t o setiefy even Grant's eldest for blood. The battle r ,guri w i t h great violence until halfepast 10 o'clock airy. joist fi vo hours—when the Federals retired beaten at all points, and took shelter behind their intrenchneents near at hand. B i t fr A v prisoners ware loit or taken by either The loss sueaincd by G rant in killed and wounded is estimated at 15,000 men. The loss sus tained by the Confederates does not reach 1,000. At first I was disposed to dieuredit the latter re port, but a visit to the hospitals, to the medical chiefs of divisions and corps, and the medical direc tor of the array, has removed all doubt. The testi mony of officers in the trenclrs is confirmatory of the reports derived from medical men. Brigadier. side. General Law, who received a painful though not dangerous wound over the eye, states that up to the time he was wounded-9 a.m.—but three men in his entire brigade had been hurt, including him• self. No people were ever more thorot“l - Cy in earnest than the people of these States. The schools have all been closed except for boys and girls of tender years ; women who have bees delicately reared willingly forego the luxuries and comforts to which they have been accustomed all their lives, and give up their linen and silks for the coarse fabrics produced by the looms of the country ; they perform the postal service in many parts of the country, and m ay be found at the wayside "homes," the hospitals, the sewing establishments, and, indeed, wherever there is work to be done or suffering to be assuaged. Wealthy planters and thrifty merchants and bankers gladly take their places in the trenches, and bear all the fatigue of the campaigne equally with the poorest ; ministers vacate their pulpits to preach in the woods and fields, and grayhaired fathers send their sons to the camp and take their places at the handles of the plough. And now, when the army is engaged in a mortal struggle with a multitudinous foe, pious people everywhere, of every sex and con dition, in public meeting and private devotions, offer prayers day and night without ceasing for the suc cess of the cause and the safety of their loved ones. Can such a people be conquered ? °light such a people to be subjugated ? Even boys of 14 and 15 years of age run away from their parents to join the army. _ _ _ And what are the horrors from which these people are striving to escape? The inhabitants re siding on either bank of the lower waters of James River had already suffered all the evils which usually follow in the bloody track of civil war, bat it has been reserved for General Butler to impose new burdens and practise additional barbarities. In some instances the men have been shot down by drunken black soldiers or scourged to death, and then nailed to trees and gate-posts, and their neighbours, for asking permission to inter their re mains, have been forced from their homes and transported to distant prisons. Where the men have been made to suffer thus, the reader may imagine, though I shall not attempt to depict the unmention able horrors to which women have been subjected, and under which they have actually perished! Meanwhile, the world looks on with folded hands, and grave European statesmen even desire the suc cess o 2 the party one of whose trusted officers is this wretch Butler ! Grant renewed his attack on the nights of the 3d and 4th, and again on the night of the sth, but without result; each assault was repulsed with heavy loss to himself, and but little to the Confede rates. During the night of the sth he retired his right wing about two miles, and placed it behind a swamp, which protects both the flank and front of this wing of his army. Not content with this security, he has thrown up strong intrenchments around his flanks and along his entire front. It should have been stated before that the battle of the 3d was fought upon the same ground as the battles of Gaines' Mill and Cold Harbour in 1862. It was at Gold Harbour that Jackson first struck M.Clellan's flank and rear in his first grand flank movement, a fact well-known to the confederates, and from which they drew fresh inspiration. The position of the armies was reversed in some respects, the Federals occupy ing nearly the same ground the Confederates held in 1862. In the engagements of that year at Gaines' Mill and Cold Harbour, M'Clelian, though strongly intrenched, was driven from his position with heavy loss. Thus far Grant has found it impossible to dislodge the Confederates from the same ground. The latter availed themselves upon some parts of the field of the works from which they formerly drove M'Clellan. Among the killed on the Confederate side are Brigadier-General Doles, of Georgia; Colonel L. M. Keitt, of South Carolina, formerly a distinguished member of the United States House of Representa tives, and Colonel Edwin Willis, of Georgia, a late graduate of West Point, and one of the most pro mising officers in the Confederate army. Among the wounded are Brigadier-General Law, of Ala bama, Kirkland of Georgia, a n d Lane of North Carolina, the two first slightly_ M.ior-General T.__ night attack of the 4th. Oa the evening of the sth General Grant sent a communication to General Lee, propasing that when the armies were not actually engaged either party may, upon notification to the other, succour its wounded and bury its dead. General Lee re. plied that he preferred the custom common on such occasions—to wit, that the party desiring to remove its wounded and inter its dead should send in a flag of truce, and ask permission to do so, adding that the burial party should be accompanied by white flags. To this Grant rejoined, affecting to under. stand General Lee as accepting his proposition, and informing him that he wculd eend forward a force between the hours of 12 and 3 o'clock p.m. of the 6th, to care for the wounded and killed, end that they would be instructed to carry flags of the kind designated by General Lee. The latter immediately informed him that he had misunderstood him, and that if he, Grant, would send out a party for the purpose indicated without first obtaining permission under flag of truce to do so, he would cause the party to be warned off by his pickets. 1 am not informed whether any further communication has been received from Grant. His dead and many of his wounded still remain in front of the Confederate iutrenchments, the one poisoning the air by their stench, and the other vexing it by their cries for help. The Confederate cannot discharge the duties of uumanity on account of the fire of the Federal sharpshooters, and Grant is unwilling to solicit per mission to do it, since it would imply his defeat. Thousands of his dead were left unburied at the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court-house for the same reason. understand that Grant has mule the usual request for permission to bury his dead, and hat Lee has granted it. THE MURDER OE MR BRlGGS.—Explained by an imaginary confession in the Spectator Y es , it is all true as you say, and my name is Herman Swiss, of a German Canton, and I will tell you all about it. I was at Bow, on the station, and I saw this old gentleman, and I wanted money much, very much. No, I am not a thief, but I wanted money very much, and the old gentle man took out his watch, and I saw his bag, and I thought how pleasant it would be to take both, and as I was taking my seat I saw him get into a carriage alone, and I got out and went to his carriage, and sat opposite him. He sat in his corner and dozed. I thought I would take his watch, and to prevent his crying out I would stun him, so I dropped my glove, and he stooped kindly enough to pick it up, and I hit him on the back of his ekull with a little life-preserver I carry, and snatched the watch. But the blow was not hard enough, and he revived and looked at me, and said he should know me again, and I thought of a prison, and hit him again, and again, till the blood spurted all over me, and he lay dead. Then I got horribly frightened, and thought only how to get rid of his body, and I seised him and stretched out my hand over the door, and opened the handle, making it all bloody, and lifted him up, and struck my knee for ward and threw him on to the next set of rails, thinking all in a moment the next train would run over him. I was in a dreadful fright, and did not ;search him or take off his diamond ring P—how was I to take his ring with the hand so clutched with the pain— but when he was gone I tried to open his leather bag, and made it bloody, but it was empty. Then I looked out, and the body was not on the rails but between them, and I looked in and saw the blood on the cushion and the matting, and I got still more frightened, and when the train reached Hackney I jumped out, and the porter was looking for sixpences, and the ticket man worried bypeople pa ss i ng him, and I ran down th e em e . bankment dal dark, and buttoned my coat over the bloody shirt, and put on my gloves over my bloody hands, and got safe away. Next day I wanted to get rid of the watch and chain, for 1 wanted money very much, but I thought every pawnbroker's shop would be visit e d, an d b e i ng a f ore i gner I did not know any receivers, so I went to Mr Death's and changed the chain, and took another and an old ring with a head on it. I didn't want that, but I was afraid to resist too much, ao I took it and stood in the shadow, and walk ed away me,for I am not E ng li s h, an d I a pdiidalnyt want man. No, I don't regret it r : N o, to nobody murder assisted the very lunch, I wanted En nay so much, and he threatened ma. Why did I pitch out the body ? . Because I was in a fright, and it was almost dark. Why did I try for the watch before we re ac h e d the station ? ecause I thought if I stunned him I cou l d say he was in a fit, and sli p awa y quietly in the confusion and you see afterw ards I hadn't many wits, the blood frightened me so: HOW did I know that region so well ? I didn't know it, but I wanted to avoid the door, and so I amped down there, and got awa y . Yes, I took his hat in my fright, and should hove taken his money, only I had no time, and I thought hi 9, leather bag was sure to have money," THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1864. DRAMATIC COLLEGE FETE, The fete held annually at Sydenham for the benefit of the Royal Dramatic College has now become one of the recognised entertainments of the London summer, and the season would scarcely reach its normal termination were not two of its .atter days enlivened by the conversion of the grand transept of the Crystal Palace into the semblance of a country fair. An imitation of " Richardson's Show," a conjuror's booth occupied by Messrs. Toole and Paal Bedford, a circle of stalls, presided over by ladies of histrionic fame, and an " Aunt Sally," under the guardianship of Mr. Buckstone, are among the established symbols of July. _ _ All the usual ceremonies took place on Saturday last, when the fete was opened by Mr. Romer, the permanent Herald of the College, who, shortly after 12 o'clock at noon, opened the fair with mock solemnity. No sooner was this concluded than the whole fair was replete with life and noise, for even at noon the transept was crowded with an expectant body of visitors, and the orators on the parades of the different shows vied with each other in bawling for patronage. _ _ Most attractive among these temporary places of amusement were " Richardson's Show," " Womb wel's Menagerie," and Messrs. J. L. Toole and Paul Bedford's " Temple of Magic"—which last did not, hawever, open until 3 o'clock, the conjuror and his assistants being the principal artists in Richardson's company during the earlier afternoon. The play, entitled " Don Sabre Isquierdo (very literal Spanish for " over the left"), was quite on the prin ciple of those once popular tragedies that in a few years will probably be obliterated from the public mind, and the audience roared with laughter to see Mr. Toole attired as a romantic lover sacri ficing his life for the sake of a bulky innaniorata, represented by Mr. Paul Bedford. When relieved by another company these gentlemen returned to their own " temple," Mr. Toole went through a series of legerdemain tricks, while Mr. Bed ford waited upon him as a silver-buttoned page. These tricks, it should be observed, were not, as on former occasions, a burlesque of the conjuror's art, but were performed by genuine sleight of hand and with a neatness which would have done no discredit to a Frikell or a Hermann, Real feats were also performed by some unnamed juggler in a booth inscribed " Gyngell's Wonderful Exhibi tion." Womb well's Menagerie presented a most strking appearance on the outside, decorated as it was with a number of extremely well-executed pictures of animals that covered a large space. " Parents and guardians" were assured that the beasts might be visited without the slightest danger, and the good faith of this assurance was soon made manifest, to those who entered the booth, for the once savage animals had been stuffed. Oae cage alone held living inhabitants—namely, a lion and some monkeys, personated by human actors, and a stalwart Van Amburgh, represented by Mr. S. Robins. The showman of the menagerie was Mr. Addison, who performed his duties with a great deal of humour. Next in importance to these three principal shows was Mr J. Clarke's " Museum of Antiquities." The antiquities were objects of the commonest kind, described by tickets attached to them as highly interesting relics. These inscriptions bad been de vised with much ingenuity, and there was an at traction of the non-deceptive kind in the shape of Lupini's small horse, exhibited on former occasions. It is melancholy to state that shortly after the open ing of the show some wounds were discovered in one of the poor little animal's haunches, and these were only to be accounted for by the conjecture that some blackguard, out of wanton cruelty, had cut the horse with a knife. There were several other booths of smaller dimen sions, and for the amusement of the loungers about the fair there were, in addition to Mr. Buckstoue's " Aunt Sally," a Jack-in-the Green, attended by Messrs. C. Smith and R. Romer as "My Lord" and " My Lady," a Punch and Judy show, and a wandering acrobat, whose energies were kept down by the vigilance of a sham policeman. The stalls for the sale of fancy articles, &c., were, as usual, ranged in a ; 1 e_rc_e encompassing; th.. oantro - may 'vendors being inscribed over them in letters composed of pink rosettes. The circle was, however, inter rupted this time by an admirable copy of Shake pere's birthplace, set up on the occasion of the Ter centenary celebration, and exhibited on Saturday by Mr. Phillips, of the Adelphi. Mrs: Mrs. A. Mellon, and several others were at their posts immediately after the opening of the fair, and attracted a large number of purchasers, but some of the ladies did not arrive till late in the afternoon. Among these was Mademoisella Stella Colas, who at once became such au object of uni versal curiosity that her stall was not even to be approached without a crush—the throng increas ing as the afternoon advanced. Altogether the fete was admirably conducted and went uff with great spirit. To-day (Monday) the same entertainment will be given, the price of ad mission, 2s. 6d. on Saturday, being reduced to one shilling. o'clock, and then proceeded to the westward, also in search. Should the Copenhagen or any other merchant vessel re quire assistance off the Bay of Biscay, it is possible she may be relieved by the Encounter, 14, Capt. R. Dew, from China, which touched at St. Helena on the Ist June, or by the screw steam frigate Narcissus, 59, Rear Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.8., from the Cape of Good Hope. These ships arc expected daily at Plymouth. Railway and Other Companies, MEDITERRANEAN HOTEL (LIMITED). An adjourned general meeting of this company was held on Friday at the London Tavern, with a view to ascertain how many share and scrip holders would agree to continue in the company, and how many would accept a return of £2 10s. per share ; Mr E. H. Craufurd, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that a resolution had been come to at the last meeting between the directors and the committee of shareholders to the following effect That with a view to ascertain how many shareholders and holders of scrip will agree to continue their connection with the company, and how many will refuse, the com mittee and directors be authorised jointly, if they think fit, to take counsel's opinion as to the legal effect of such an arrangement, and to communicate jointly with the share holders, and to take such other steps as may be necessary ; and this meeting stand adjourned to this place for the ;15th of July, 1864, at three o'clock precisely." This had been embodied in a circular to the shareholders stating that it was extremely desirable that the directors and committee should be in possession of the views of the shareholders at least two or three days before the adjourned meeting. They therefore requested the shareholders to re turn an :answer on or before Wednesday, the 13th inst., stating whether they desired to remain in the company or not, tellin; them that if no reply were received from them it would Le assumed that they preferred to remain in the company rather than surrender their shares on receiving £2 10s. per share. The result of the circular showed that the holders of 1,245 shares upon which £5 each had been paid were willing to surrender them on receiving back £2los. per share. Then there were the shares held by the committee who had not replied to the circular, but he understood they were willing to take the £2 10s. with the rest—that would add 433 shares more, making 1,675. iThe scrip holders were also willing to agree to the proposition. After several propositions were rejected, an amendment by Mr Harris was carried to the effect that as it appeared the holders of about 1,700 shares were willing to receive a return of £2 lOs per:share if they could legally do so, and the directors being of opinion that this agreement could be carried out, it be resolved that the directors pledge them selves to carry out that agreement with the committee, and that the meeting stand adjourned to the sth of August. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE NEW ERA IN OUR FOREIGN POLlCY.—Political circumstance and the mood of the hour are now playing very decidedly into Mr Cobden's hands. His favourite formula of " no foreign politics for England" is being practi cally adopted by most politicians—by many who would be scarcely loth even to profess it as a creed; and if we should have during the next ten years no wiser statesman than during the last ten, Mr Cob den may yet live to see the time when people will be as little ashamed of his maxim that our ambas sadors should be the commercial travellers of Eng land, as they now are of its less vulgar equivalent —" no foreign politics," Those who discredit and disgrace a nobler creed are responsible for the reac tion which inclines men to follow Mr Cobden into a theory of international behaviour—we cannot call it a duty—so mean and selfish that it could not be disgraced. The fact, however, cannot be denied that Mr Cobden's principles have gained a great step in English estimation in consequence of the suddencloud which has descended on the representa tives of a spirited foreign policy. The great register of English opinion has already openly declared for them. It has proclaimed in article after article that a new era has begun, in which England is to hold her tongue, acquiesce in everything, however flagrant and shameful, that happens abroad, unless it touches her own interests, and as a proof of her sincerity, is not to look on smiling while Denmark is ground to powder, but openly to proclaim her intention to withdraw all resistance to the slave trade, and to tolerate it calmly for the future. Public opinion, says the limes, has declared decisively "that we are neither to fight nor threaten except when our interests are imme diately concerned ln this respect we view the debate of last week as the com mencement of a new era. Pablic opinion has pronounced itself decisively, and we summon all statesmen who would hold a permanent place in the councils of their country to mark and to obey it." And again within two days the same great inter preter of the majority of Englishmen took the opportunity of the conversation in the House of Commons concerning Brazil, to clinch the general maxim that we must "reform the policy of the Foreign Office in accordance with feelings of the times in which we live," by a forcible practical illus tration. The African squadron for putting down the slave trade, it said, is the greatest possible trans gression of the newly-received theory. Counting up, it remarks, the expense of the squadron to English taxpayers, with the fevers and other sufferings of its crews, and the much greater sensitiveness of the white race to " sufferings which are the daily lot of a poor savage, to whom they appear as the ordinary destiny of humanity," remembering, too, "that we are not answerable for the negro, while the Govern ment is deeply responsible for the fate of every sub ject of the Queen entrusted to its charge,"—count ing and considering these things, it openly calls upon the nation to take care " that the question of the prevention of slavery may not escape notice as a prominent part of the present system of intermed dling in the affairs of foreign nations." When Mr Cobden reads this noble exposition of the future English foreign policy, we are sure that he will begin to take in the Times again. Even he could not have put the matter more broadly, and we doubt whether he would have put it so courageously. That touch of infinite contempt for " the sufferings which are the daily lot of a poor savage, to whom they appear as the ordinary destiny of humanity," —that significant valuation of a few English deaths from yellow fever and a few annual pence oat of the taxpayers' pockets as evils so great as to transcend absolutely and enormously that of the degradation of a whole race and the barbarism of a vast continent, are developments so instructive of the true moral logic of Mr Cobden's policy, that we feel sure that astute tactician would never have brought them forward, But the limes, as usual not caring for the votes of fastidious men, but wishing to reap the full advantage of appealing straight to the coarse and selfish English common sense, has perceived that this is the true moral in ference involved. If we are to present an apathetic front to the sufferings and wrongs of foreign races and nations, we must accustom ourselves at once to feel that the suffering of one Englishman will out weigh in our moral scales the sufferings of any number of foreigners. We must learn at once to be wrapped up in ourselves; we must, as Dr. New man says, say " what is required by our position ;" we must learn to disbelieve if we can that " the very negro whom we tread upon, in corporal an guish feels a pang as great as when a Saxon dies ;" we must, in short, feel and think unselfishly, and be .selfish to our heart's core, if wo 'nsnre asafe " and consistent policy of selfish is olation and no foreign politics. As the man who makes up his mind to push his own interest in the world is obliged in self-defence and consistency to believe from the bottom of his heart that his interests have an infinitely higher and deeper claim on him than any other person's in the whole world, so if we are t) inaugurate " the new_era" in earnest, we must prepare for it by depreciating the sufferings of others, thinking lightly of their wrongs, and find ing out reasons why we should not permit them to ruffle our enjoyments. Moreover, it is quite consis tent with, nay, almost demanded by the same prin ciple, that we should be aggressive in the East while isolating ourselves in the West; and here we think the limes is more consistent than Mr Cobden. The same policy which stands aloof where alliances would involve something or disinterestedness and self-sacri. fice, will properly encroach and threaten where only weak Japanese or Chinese are concerned. When we repudiate once for all the maxim parcere subjectis debellare superbos, it is likely enough that we shall adopt in its place the counsel to be tender to the haughty, and to press with all our arma ments upon the oppressel. The two principles hang perfectly together. And before long we have no doubt that Mr. Cobden will be convinced by his new allies how right and natural it is that the Eng lish selfishness which takes the form of cold indiffe rence in three continents should take that of haughty arrogance in the fourth. The " commer cial travellers" will be right in bullying where they can get a large custom by bullying than by servility. After we have broken off our international ties with Europe and America, and spurned contemptuously the suffering barbarians of Africa, it will be but natural to recoup ourselves by a showy and dicta torial policy in Asia for the humiliations of isola tion. In proportion as we shrink in the West, we shall desire to puff ourselves up in the East. As we lose deference here among our equals, we shall swell with ostentation there among our inferiors. Nor is this the worst. It is quite impossible that a foreign policy built upon selfishness can help react ing on domestic policy. "Am I my brother's keeper ?" was not originally the language of a wise foreign policy, but of an unhappy as well as guilty domestic policy ; and those who adopt it in the former capacity can hardly fail to see it resume something of its original significance. Who that has eagerly advocated a selfish and self-occupied policy for England can upbraid a class for stand ing aloof in precisely the same manner from the life of the nation, and while consulting for its own benefit in the narrower sense, ignoring or oven superciliously discrediting the notion of duty towards other classes ? Cannot we see this leaven already beginning to work on the class which we should suppose as yet the least likely to be affected by it, in such letters as those from Mr. R. Coningsby which have been paraded in the Times? The principle of those letters is, for the working class, exactly the principle which Mr. Cobden wishes to see applied to the international policy of England, and which Cain wished to see applied to the fraternal policy of families. Mr. Con ingsby put forward an ostentatious desire to stand aloof from the political privileges of the nation as advantages scarcely deserving to be weighed in the scale against the acquisition of private wealth, knowledge, and independence by the working class—precisely the view of English foreign policy which Mr. Cobden wishes to force on the nation. And if this disposition should spread in the working class, we believe it will be the most certain preparation for a vulgar and tyrannical use of the political advantages of numbers, whenever the great working class does at last seize the reins of power ;—just as Mr. Cobden's selfish " stand aloof " policy for England in Europe tends more than any other to foster tke unscrupulousness with which the commercial classes are disposed to press the power of England in China and Japan where the trade feeling is (perhaps prudently, in its own narrow sense of the word " prudent") as aggressive as it is meek and abject at home in the presence of great Powers like Germany or France. THE SATURDAY REVIEW ON TILE FUTURE PROS PECTS OF THE MINISTRY.—Nothing succeeds like success ; arid France, finding that Lord Palmer ston's Government is going to stay in, seems in clined to be friendly once more, to forget the affront of the rejection of the Congress, and to patch up a new cordial understanding with the Whigs. The theory of the Standard, we observe, is, that as the Imperial Government is the most isolated in Europe, and the present English Government is the most despised, they are brought together by misfortune. They are led, in fact, to cultivate something of that reckless and hollow cordiality with which plain women, who are left out, encourage each other while the pretty ones are dancing. Thus one considerable difficulty is removed out of Lord Palmerston's way, and it is no longer possible to say that, if England se act cordially with the Emperor, Lord Derby * e effico. The weakest part o f the prospects is b~ must tn. KENT COAST. The traffic returns on this line for the week ending the 3d inst. amounted on 27 miles to £2,400, and for the corre ponding week in 1863 on 101 miles to £B5, showing an in crease of 16t miles and £2,315. The traffic for the week ending the 10th inst, amounted to £2,600, and for the cor responding week in 1863 to £95, showing an increase of £2,505 in the receipts, and 16i miles in the length of line open for tlatlic. HULL AND lIORNSEA. The traffic return on thie line for the week ending the 10th inst. amounted to £242. NEWMARKET AND ELY, A proposal has been brought forward for the construction of a line be:ween these points. The proposed capital is £60,000, and the cost of construction is estimated by Mr Valentine, C.E., at £7,000 per mile. DUTCH RHENISH. The reeeip - s for the fortnight ending June 30 amounted to £11,161, aad for the corresponding period of last year to £9,862, showing an increase of £1,299. The receipts since the commencement of the present book year, on the let of May, including the above, amounted to £12,253, show ing an increase, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, of £1,986. Tho working expenses for the fortnight amounted to £1,311, or 38.61 per cent, of the receipts, and for the corresponding period cf last year to £3,856, or 3)•07 per cent,, showing an increase of £l5. The working expenses from the let of May to the 30th of June, 1831, amounted to £10,473, or 38.98 per cent. cf the receipts, DE ME RARA, The traffic receipts on this company's line for the fort night ending the 11th of Juno amounted to 3,470 dole, and for the corresponding period of 1803 to 3,155 dole, showing an increme of 315 dole. MELBOURNE AND HOBSON'S BAY. Tho traffic returns on this company's line, six miles in length, for the four weeks ending the 19th of May last, amounted to £5,982, and for the corresponding period of last year to £1,857, showing en increase of £1,125. Tu. 7 erma.. zwurviray - Accident in Canada, The particulars which have been received of the terrible accident which betel an emigrant train on the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, unhappily confirm the fact that there i h c o de N sp e a ck te e h r e , s a pu la b r i g is e he p d ac a k f e e t w , s d i a m y i s ia s r in t c o e. th l o t s e appears was a dreadful loss of life, as already stated in the tele tghr a a t p h t bring the emigrants to New York, left Hamburg about the 18th of May, and arrived at Quebec on Monday, the 27th of June, bringing out 538 emigrants. These consisted of Germans, Norwegians, and Poles, whose destination was principally Western Canada, a few being bound for the Western States, and most of them had considerable means. On Tuesday night they were forwarded, with the exception of about thirty of the poorer class, by special train from Quebec. There must, therefore, have been fully five hun dred, if not more, on the cars, which proceeded without accident to Bekaa Mountain. Here the river Richelieu is spanned by an iron bridge, on the top of which the cars pass. A drawbridge forms the connection between the last pier and the abutment to the Montreal side. The bridge is about 1,100 feet in length to the opening of the drawbridge, and about 45 feet above the water, which is some ten feet deep in the canal under the drawbridge. The rule of the company is that this drawbridge should always be sup posed to be open, and that the train should therefore come to a dead stand on approaching the bridge, and not at tempt to proceed until the proper signal has been given. At fifteen minutes past one on 'Wednesday morning, when the special train arrived, the drawbridge was open to permit the passage of a steamer which bad some barges loaded with grain in tow. The train, however, did not pull up at all, notwithstanding the established rule, and the dis play of the danger signal, the red light, which should im mediately have warned the conductors of the train to stop it, and not to proceed until the light was changed into a white one. The position of the bridge gives a view of the signal from a distance of 1.625 ft. Hence the conduct of the engine driver is the more extraordinary, as it is stated he could have stopped the train in from 500 ft. to 600 ft. The driver, it is sail, admits having seen the danger signal, but alleges that :20 found it impossible to stop the train in time, Whether he could have done so or not was not proved at the time the present particulars were sent, as the coroner's inquest had not then taken place. Certain it is that the train dashed on at a great pace, and, as might have been expected, when it arrived at the draw -bridge it was found to be swung round for some boats to pass. Down this yawning abyss tae cars, with their living freight, dashed headlong. The locomotive and tender, with the first five cars (baggage), vent in first. the six passenger cars piling down on top of them with terrific violence, being precipitated a distance of some 70 feet. At this very moment, as already mentioned, a steamer was passing the ongh with six barges in tow, and the accident would undoubtedly have been of a doubly mournful character had it not so happened that the cars fell on one of the barges, sinking it, but preventing the wreck from being submerged to such an extent as it would have been bad the canal been clear. The last three passenger ca rs, falling on the accumulated debris of the others, shunted sighly to one side, and over to the opposite em • bankment,that is on the Montreal side. From thence the living were chiefly taken, the other cars containing few who had escaped a grave or mortal injury in the horrible crash. A little child was found, singular to say, altogether unin jured, lying in its dead mother's arms. The man in charge of the barge sunk, had a narrow escape along w i t h his family. He heard the train thundering along, looked up, and saw the drawbridge open, and, being then imme diately underneath, had just time to snatch his wife and little children away before the cars descended on his ves sel. Fortyfive dead bodies were recovered early in the day, only 18 of these being adults. The remains were conveyed tot shed by the riverside, where they presented a sad spectacle, many of the dead being terribly disfigured. Some of the children were only a year or two old. Harrowing scenes presented themselves in the tempo rary hospitals, where the wounded were placed together. Many of the wounds received by the poor people were about the head and face, rendering the sight still more hideous. Only one anputation was performed, and that on a woman, who bore tin operation in a most heroic manner. The knee joint had been badly fractured, an d amputation had to be performed, but the brave woman appeared more dis tressed at her husband's grief than at her own misfor tune, or the pain she was suffering. The Government police did good service in keeping the people from crowd ing round 6e sheds, and permitting the free access of fresh air tc the sick. Most of those who had escaped were to be seen wandering about seeking relatives or friends, bell Aning their sad fate, the melancholy ending of their hitherto prosperous voyage, and the dissipation of their hopes and anticipations formed on coming to try their fortunes in a new country. The:majccity of those saved were adults. The driver of the train escaped the doom which had fallen upon so many of those committed to his charge. The Mordleur promulgates the law voted in the late Legislative Session for fixing the Bunkd of 1865. The expens es are g iven at 1,750,922,583 4 . : and the receipts at 1,752,(136,062fr., ebowing snr plus of 1,113,479:r. Naval and Military Intelligence Rear-Admiral Lord Clarence E. Paget, M.P., arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday, and embarking in the Fire queen steam yacht, Staff-Commander Paul, accompanied by Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, G.C.8., paid a visit to the Channel fleet at Spithead. On returning from his visit to the fleet his Lordship left Portsmouth for Brighton. The Channel fleet is expected to sail from Spithead to day on a cruise westward, probably calling in at Torbay, and afterwards looking in at Bristol, and other ports not visited during last summer's cruise. From the western ports the fleet is expected to proceed to the north coast of Ireland. The Channel fleet now at Spithead anchorage consists of the Edgar, 71, screw wooden line-of-battle ship, Capt. G. T. P. Hornby,flagship of the Admiral commakding,Sydney Colpoys Dacres, C.B. ; the Warrior, 40, iron frigate, screw, Capt. Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C.B. ; the Black Prince, 40, iron frigate screw, Capt. James F. B. Wainwright; the Defence, 16, iron frigate, screw, Capt. A. Phillimore, and the Trinculo, screw wooden gunboat, tender to the flagship. The Galatea, 26, wooden frigate, screw, Capt. R. Maguire, is under orders to sail from Spithead for the West Indies, and is expected to convoy out the wooden gunboat, scraw, lAlbacore. On Saturday Rear-Admiral R. S. Robinson, the Control ler of the Navy, paid an official visit to Chatham dockyard for the purpose of inspecting the works in progress and the vessels under construction at that establishment. On arriving at the dockyard he was met by Capt. Stewart, C. 8., superintendent, and the principal officials, and proceeded in the first instance to inspect the iron frigate Bellerophon, in the construction of which very considerable progress has recently been made, Leaving the dock in which the iron clad is building, Admiral Robinson visited the smitheries, which have recently been considerably enlarged to keep pace with the iron shipbuilding works, and examined the working of the powerful steam hammers for forging the heaviest por tions of stem and stern of the Lord,Warden and Ballerophon iron. elad. The Lord Warden was inspected. The progress made in the construction since the last visit of the Control ler was considered very satisfactory, the vessel being com pletely in trame and the operation of fixing the inner course of planking now proceeding. Admiral Robinson also visited the Cadmus, 21, 400 horse power, undergoing a thorough repair, and also the Torch, 5, and after transacting official business with the captain-superintendent returned to the Admiralty in the afternoon. The paddle-wheel steam sloop Bulldog, 6, Capt. C. Wake, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday afternoon, She left Sheerness on Saturday, June 25, having in tow the hired transport Waubogweez. She conveyed the vessel to the entrance of the roadstead of Madeira and arrived there on the 6th inst. The paddle .wheel steam sloop Gladiator, 6, Capt. F. 11. Short, being in attendance, took the trans • sport in tow immediately and left the same day for Cape Coast Castle, where the Waubcgweez will embark sick troops for conveyance to the West Indies. The Bulldog left Madeira on the 9th inst., and spoke, July 14, lat 45 40 N, long 9 40 W, the bark Zealand, of Amsterdam, and lat 45 12 N, long 9 20 W, the brig Johanna, of Christiana, both bound out ; and July 16, off the Lizard, her Majesty's ship Conklin. The United States frigate St. Louis left Madeira on July 6 for tho Azores. The hired transport St. Lawrence, 1,093 tons, Captain Toynbee, belonging to Messrs. T. and W. Smith, left Ply mouth Sound on Friday evening with about 30 passengers, including Col. Lamb. The St. Lawrence is gone to Queen town to embark the right wing of the 11th Regiment, when she will sail for Calcutta. A hired transport, said to be the Copenhagen, with a de tachment from the East Indies, has been spoken in the Atlantic short of provisions. On Friday afternoon the screw steamsloop Cordelia, 11, Commander John B. Scott, left Plymouth Sound in search. She was observed off the Lizard on Saturday by the Bulldog. Yesterday one of 'the Channel squadron, the iron screw ship Hector, 24, Capt. G. W. Preedy, C. 8., made her number off Pl} mouth at 8 of the Ministry is that it cannot carry its domestic measures now, and has no hope of carrying then:: This Session has added nothing of the slightest importance to the Statute-book, excepting one of Mr Gladstone's measures of encouragement to the economical poor. The Government cannot dictate or even suggest a policy to the House. All it can do is to make it evident that its opponents are as powerful as it is itself. If Lord Derby came in he could not hope to have more of substantial strength than Lord Palmerston has, although the superior discipline of the Conservatives might give them a greater amount of available strength in proportion to their numbers. But then this powerlessness of the Government in consequence of the near balance of parties has been lately shown to be one of the inherent dangers of Parliamentary Government, and not peculiar to England. Lord Palmerston has not any very bright prospect before him. He can scarcely do more than exist ; but at any rate it has been shown that the House does not at present desire another leader, that France, in the long run, is obliged to consult its permanent interests, and that, while the country is so slightly stirred by political feeling as it is now, neither side can hope to achieve a distinguished success. THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON OfJR SHABBY DESERTION OF DENMARK.—The war between Denmark and Germany is virtually over, and nothing remains but to settle terms of capitulation more or less disastrous to the beaten party. Re duced by successive defeats, and dispirited by disasters which no heroism could avert, the Danish army is no longer in a condition to interpose more than a temporary obstacle to any extension of their conqaests which the German Powers may choose to undertake, It is probable that by this time the whole of Jut land is in their possession, nor is there much reason to doubt that the islands and Copenhagen are within their power, should they determine to push matters so far. Lord Palmerston did indeed assure the House of Commons the other evening that no attack upon the capital was contemplated ; but we cannot now place the slightest value upon state ments which only echo the faithless professions of the German Powers. Assuming, as we may no doubt do with perfect safety, that there is no longer any prospect of an English fleet intervening, even So far as to prevent the junction of the German naval forces in the Baltic, it is clear that the Danes are nearly as defenceless on sea as on land. Little, therefore, is left but to wait with patience until the conquerors make known their pleasure. The King of Denmark, at all events, appears convinced that further resistance is fruitless. He has dismissed the Ministry of Bishop Monrad, and formed an other on the basis of peace at any price. What is the price which he has offered to pay—what is the price which Austria and Prussia may please to de mand—we are as yet ignorant. Looking at the antecedents of the new Danish Premier, there is reason to fear that Christian IX. may not be dis inclined to conciliate M. von Bismarck by entering upon a reactionary course of domestic policy. But it is scarcely likely that he would be permitted by his subjects to purchase at such a cost more favour• able terms of peace. With regard to the terms which Prince John of Glucksburg may have been commissioned to offer at Berlin, or to the conditions which Prussia may have prescribed, nothing is at present known. It is said that the Danish monarch has offered to surrender Holstein and part of Schles wig to Prussia, but even if it be true that such a proposal has been made, and that it is not unac■ ceptable to the Court of Berlin, we can hardly think that the latter would venture to set their allies at defiance by appropriating to themselves the whole gain of the war. Another version of the proposals of which the Prince is the bearer, is that they are based upon the personal union of the Duchies with Denmark, and the entrance of the whole kingdom into the Germanic Confederation. But although such a project might not be distasteful either to Count Moltke or to the King (who is, after all, a German), we cannot think it would be assented to by the Danish people. The one point upon which they have set their minds, is the complete emanci pation of their country from German influence, and we do not think that they would be ready to increase that influence either for the purpose of retaining a purely nominal supremacy over the Duchies, or for that of revenging themselves on the neutral Powers, who have left them to their fate. Undoubtedly if such a scheme were carried out, it would bring a severe, but just, retribution upon Louis Napoleon for his desertion of an ancient ally. It is indeed highly improbable that France would regard with indifferencesuch an aggrandisement of the Germanic Confederation. To England, on the other hand, it would b© a matter of comparative indifference ; and after the Emperor's refusal to join us in maintaining the independence of Denmark, we should certainly not be w illing t o assist him in averting a contingent danger from France. It is evident that some un easiness is felt at Paris. both with respect to thou. negotiations, and to the alleged formation ore new Holy Alliance. The disavowals of Austria and Prussia have clearly failed to convince diplomatists and statesmen—who have probably good reason for their incredulity—that the despatches published by the Morning Post are destitute of authenticity. M. Drouyn de Lhuys has been instructed to inform the world that his master will be unable to disre gard the bearing of events as directly affecting the interests of all the maritime powers in the north, and even those of the equilibrium of this part of Europe; and to express a hope " that no complica tion will arise of so grave a character as to neces sitate our embracing a different policy." The semi official organs of the French Government have once more received the cue to speak well of England, and to dwell with emphasis on the importance and dem sirableness of an intimate Anglo-French Alliance. After the experience of the lest few years, we know well what this means. It is impossible that we should accept it as a mark of sincere affection; but it is welcome as an indication that the Emperor's illicit political flirtations in other quarters have met with a signal repulse. THE "EXAMINER" ON RAILWAY COMMUNICA TION.—On railway carriages should be written, " He who enters leaves hope of help and protection." No matter what may happen, the passenger is cut off from all succour between one stoppage and another. The carriage may be on fire, or the wheels broken, and the bottom knocking to pieces against the road, or some personal outrage may be in pro cess of commission—robbery, rape, or murder, and there are no means of making known the danger, and stopping the train and obtaining assistance. All this has long been felt ; but the terrible murder on the North London line, and some recent out rages against women, have produced a fearful con viction that there is no safety in the system of isolation in the railway carriage, and that there must be an end of it. The surest and best method of communication is the Continental, by a gangway running along the side of the train, by which the guard visits the carriages, takes tickets, arid performs other services of the road. If this mode of communication were adopted a signal of alarm would summons the guard to the spot, and he would judge whether or not the occasion was one for communicating with the driver and stopping the train. The objection that nervous people would be stopping the train for foolish fancies cannot, therefore, apply to the arrangement. The check to outrages and crimes would be most effectual, for though a villain might hope to so master his victim by a sudden attack so as to prevent recourse to the means of alarm, yet he never could feel secure against the guard's visits to the window. At any moment the guard might be passing by and hear the sounds of a struggle or cries for help. But these visits of the guard, it may he said, are not pleasant on foreign lines, and people will not like to have the guard pok ing his head into carriages to see what is going on. Well, but the question is whether a little intrusion (if it amount to that) is not preferable to robbery, rape, or murder. The face of the guard appearing when he is not wanted is not so bad as the face of a grinning maniac. And is not improved safety wort: some small inconveniences ? For the last twenty years the answers to all demands for legislation to place railway management under three or our broad and simple rules for the public safety, f has been "Do not diminish their responsibility. Leave them to their responsibilities." But what has their re. sponsibility availed ? Simply to make them pay damages; but not to cause them to correct the im prudences through which the mischief' has hap. pened. We could name a company which had to pay many thousands for a disaster attended with loss of life, and frightful injuries per manently disabling several persons, all through the practice of running trains on the same line at intervals of three minutes. Yet a feai days after the catastrophe the practice was resumed, and has been continued. It seems quite an infatua tion of companies to run these risks, for which they have sometimes to pay so dear, and which might be avoided with so little inconvenience or disturb ance of their arrangements. But they prefer chancing it, to borrow the phrase of the most impudent of men, sailors. The responsibility upon which such reliance has been placed has, after a trial of a quar ter of a century, effected nothing for the improve ment of the public safety, removed no proved causes of danger, and the only remedy lies in legislation. The interference need not be much, and should be confined to a few rules, which cannot possibly do any harm. though it may be easy to dispute the advantage of them, such, for example, as a longer interval between arains, and communication between passengers and guards, and between guards and drivers. A SPLENDID PORTRAIT OF DOMENICO SCAR. LATTI, the Only ene in existence, has, we learn from the Reader, been discovered is Madrid, LAW INTELLIGENCE. ---July 16, COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Special Jury.) HOPLEY V. HOPLT.Y. At the conclusion of the judge's summing up, The jury retired, and after an absence of about an hour returned into court and requested that the evidence of Mrs. Hopley as to her last interview with her husband might be read to them. This was accordingly done, and at a quarter Past five they again returned, and stated that they were unanimous upon one issue, but were 7 to 2 upon the other and were not likely to agree, [lt will be remembered that the cause was tried by consent before 9 special jurors, no more of the pane; answering to their names ] Sir J. Wilde asked the respondent if ho would take the verdict of the majority? Mr Hopley said ho would. Sir J. Wilde then repeated the question to the petitioner 0 counsel. Dr. Wambey, in the absence of his leader (Mr. Karslake) and of their client, was not able to do so. Sir J. Wilde---But would it not be worth while to send to Mrs. Hopley ? Dr. Wambey said he would do so ; and after a short. delay he stated that though the attorney had not been abl° to communicate with the petitioner, her brother and mother were willing to take the verdict. The foreman then stated that they found unanimoußlY that there had been cruelty—but that they found by a majority of 7 to 2 that it had beon condoned. The petitioner therefore fails in her suit. Ironmasfers' Quarterly Meeting, DUDLEY, Saturday Evening. The ironmasters' meetings for the current quarter terrai mated in this town this evening, but the attendance wag small, and very few transactions were reported. It is gene rally understood that the reduction of £1 per ton on the various descriptions of finished iron will be accepted by the trade ; indeed, it would be next to impossible for even the makers of favourite brands to stand out. At the.same time, so much confusion prevails, consequent on the pro ceedings at the Birmingham meeting, that some time will necessarily elapse before matters settle quietly down. Soule thing will have to be done about wages, and a suggestion has been made that the chairman of tho association should call a special meeting an the subject. A large number of the furuacemen employed on this side of the district are out on strike, but the stocks of pig iron are ample and the prices low, so that the pigmasters are by no means embarrassed at the step which the men have taken. The various manufacturing trades in this locality are in a healthy state. All the large works are in full operation, and:the new one in course of erection by Lord Dudley iS rapidly approaching completion. In the neighbourhood Of Wednesbury the principal establishments are well engaged' especially where the manufacture of railway fittings is car ried on. There is comparativeiy little of unemployed labour in any quarter, and accounts duo this quarter day have been punc tually paid. COUNTRY YARRTITS. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. A moderate show of wheat to-day, with a firm demand at Is per qr over late prices. Barley very limited in s upply, and late prices were supported. Beans higher in price. —White wheat, from 458 to 50s ; red wheat, 39s to 42#. Barley—malting, 30s to 378 ; grinding, 27s to 295. Oatgt old, at 24s to 30s Od ; new, 19s to 255. Beans sold at 3Si to 42s'per qr. ; new, 35s to 38s. Flour, fine, 32s to 34s ; super, 36s to 338 per 20 stone. NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a tolerably good supply of wheat to -day. last week's prices must be considered at fully Lys :Buell money,°farmers not being free sellers. In other articles little passing. White wheat. 46s to 47s Red wheat 42s to 44s Malting barley ...Ms to 36s I Chevalier barley 33s to 34s Distilling do . 29s to 30s I Oats.. 24,8 to 26 4 Flour, 28s Od to —s Od per sack from the miller. YORK—SATURDAY. A small supply of wheat on offer from the farmers, no the demand being healthy an advance o f i s pe r qr vi 36 made for the finest qualities. Barley very scarce, and the trade rather better at late rates. Beans, which were sold a t prices favouring sellers, were in meagre supply, Oats firm, at advancing prices. Wheat, red 3Bs to 43s Oats . White do .42s to 47s Beans . 5 to 3 9 Barley .24s to 28s Peas a Malt, 58s to 60s per qr. ; rye,_ 32 s per qr :: flour', to 34s per sack. — 2 3 0 0 ss s t t o 2 , 3:: GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. A small show of wheat, for which an advance of 1 per qr was made, with a ready sale. Barley scarce, and at about late rates. Oats were 6d to is up. Beans in request: —Old white wheat,:4ls to 465; red, 37s to 42s per 36st. new white, 44s to 486 ; red„3Bs to 445. Malting barley, 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 2 8 s to 30 s ; oats , old, 246 t 3 26s ; new, 20s to24s; beans, 37s to 40s ; peas, 34s to 38s. LEICE STER--SATunDAY. A tolerable show of wheat, and a firm business done 1 3, t Is pc. qr. Q _:vanoc o a I.ot week's rates. Dailey eqma tohand sparingly, and only met a moderate demand. Oats in fai r demand at prices 6d in advance of last week. Beans were in only in moderate supply; prices in favour of the s eller: —New white wheat, 45s to 4(15; red, 43s to 458 per '>(' stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, malting , new, 33s to 35s per qr.; grinding, 26s to 28s; old ()at e ' 27s to 295; new oats, 20s to 24s per 24 stone. Bey` ' old, 40s to 42s per 33 stone ; flour. 255 to 30s per 20 stone. Foreign. Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. . .Jll l 9 19 ' via Marseilles Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. .. Aug. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. July .?°;* China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southamptoa.Ju l Y via Marseilles ...July 28. Falkland Islands •• ee •••• Gibraltar, via Southampton ..... July 19 ' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. J ul y 29 * via Marseilles.... July 26 20 India (Bombay), via Southampton via Marseilles July 21. P or t uga l Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton July 1 9 ; via Marseilles J uly 2" Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... July 2 0 by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. July 22 , All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I Ju ly O. California, and British Columbia.. A YANKEE SELL, OR "NOT TIME ENOUGH A correspondent of a Nashville paper tells a stOTY about a person who was going to Chattanooga on the road. When the train entered the tunnel and total dark ness, said person asked a stranger how long it would b 0 going through. Stranger was a bit of wag, and replied " two hours." Person thought he would avail himself of the opportunity to don a clean shirt, and about tho tirao 136 had "shucked himself" the train dashed right into daY" light, exposing his person to the astonished gaze of so ma hundred pairs of male and female eyes belonging to passew* gers, Ho had on no linen, and about as much summ er clothes as the Apollo Belvidere.—New York _Herald. ARCHBISHOP WHATELY once receiving a 1 1° ' land for his Oliver :—" The head master of ono of the model schools complained that some of the officers intrusted with the inspection of the schools were unduly °lnclose, and not qualified for the duty. Surely,' said the Arch" bishop, 'but one can judge plum-pudding without being n cook.' 'True, your Grace,' retorted the Lead master, ono is not, on that account, qualified to go into the kitchen and take the cook's place.'" {ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.' Oid s.nd Young.—These noble remedies cannot be toe hi g hly extolled for the beneficial influence they exe rt ? I) ! the many maladies incidental to old age, and the vexation irritations accidental to childhood. All sores, ulcers, hr, legs, and skin diseases, which secre tl y undermine the health and render old age a prolonged torture, may readily removed by the aid of this very c leansin g and benci ing ointment, assisted by Holloway's purifying pills; en d in the nursery, chaps, chafes, rashes, cuts, sprains, an burns may be readily cured. These remedies comprise la the smallest compass the best means of preventing or re moving the greater number of diseases which afflict ma n : kind through their ignorance, negligence, hardships/ 0 " h over indulgence. Births. Bvitom.—On the 13th inst., r.t Leek Staffordshire , _,/ 11° wife of Commande r W. H. Jones Byrom, Royal Noc" of a son and heir. EGERTON.—On the 15th inst., at Bridgewater House, S' 4 , James's, the Ho n . Mrs. Algernon Egerton, o f - daughter. GORDON.—On the 16th inst„ at No. 1, Halkin-street Wes t * the wife of Cosmo Duff Gordon, Esq., of a daughter. ROBINSON.—On the 14th inst., at Osmondthorpo 113 Leeds, the wife of Major Robinson, of a son. Marriages. HASTINGS—PAGET —On the 16th inst., at St. George?' Hanover-square. the Marquis of Hastings, to the Lady s Fl orence Cecilia Paget, youngest daughter of the Morrill/ of Anglesea. SMITU—YEATES. — On the 16th inst., at St. James's, ca dilly, Percy Shane Smith, Esq., late Captain 13th i'n" Dragoons, to Annette, youngest daughter of W. Wi l6Q— Yeates, Esq., of Norfoltc-crescent, llyde-park. Deaths. BATTEN.—On the 15th inst., at his residence, Lince's Fa rm ' Welwyn, Rens, Mr. Abraham Batten, aged BRUCE.—On the 14th inst., at Leamington, Lady Dru m widow of the late Sir James R. B ruce , Bart., of 1) 0 " hill, Londonderry. Cox.—On the 11th inst., at Dundee, Robert Cox ) aged 83. Cnoss,—On the 13th inst., at Kentish-town, John Croat's Esq,, aged 78. CHAYTOR.—On the 21st April, of wounds received at Ogii; kau, New Zealand, Ensign Alfred Chaytor, of the 6 Regiment. WESTBROOK.—On the 12th inst., at Heston, Dliddleseg• Edward Westbrook, Esq., aged 56. London: PrinZed and Pcblished by WILLIAM ANDlitll.,9 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TICK SUN Office No• Strand, In the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Cott"' V ° Alidtilevez,—Monday, July 18,11804. in wh GARI No cal of a each It is Evan Chaff Georg Iteg , Ituebe P. Way Char! Dire TH Capi Rob F An Whol With 'ernli 14 how ;for of 'Mille and TI Incc lit